Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Players of Guerilla Tea's Play to Cure: Genes In Space have completed six months worth of research in the month since the game was released. The amount of actual data is quite astonishing. According to Cancer Research UK: If this amount of DNA – tightly-coiled strings of genetic information – was unravelled it would stretch …
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Hunted Cow has established itself as an expert in the online role-playing game market and is now doing the same in the mobile strategy genre. The company's latest release is Tank Battle: East Front 1941. It's another title created in collaboration with strategy specialists HexWar and marks the studio's first collaboration with Lordz Games Studio, the company behind Panzer …
Ludometrics has been busy. The company is hard at work on its new PS Vita game, Bodycheck. The second part of the teams' developer diary is now live and online over on The Vita Lounge website. Ludometrics has also just announced that it's retro arena shooter Gridlock is now available for the new GameStick micro …
In 2013, the team at Stormcloud unleashed Mr Shingu's Paper Zoo, a brand new and original origami game, created for the latest generation of touch screen tablets and smartphones. The game allowed children, families and players of all ages to fold and create a whole menagerie of animals such as lions, pandas and hippopotamuses, before …
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The all new and officially ground-breaking Freelance Directory on your friendly neighbourhood Scottish Games Network is now live... Covering every aspect of work in the games and interactive sectors, the directory is the first of its kind. It provides freelancers with a way to reach a community of several hundred development studios, tech companies and …
Physicists, astronauts, quantum tunnelers, renegade cosmologists and evil galactic overlords, rejoice! Squares Of Black Space: Alpha Square, the new release from Pixel Sword, is out now. Now you can do battle with the very fabric of spacetime itself, hold back the darkness and ensure the universe, the multiverse, indeed, the WSOGMM continues to exist. The …
Games can change the world... In July 2013, the team at Guerilla Tea announced that they were working with Cancer Research UK on a new game which would use real world clinical research data. Players would manipulate this data as part of the game, creating a huge virtual team, speeding up research and potentially providing …
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The all new, totally redesigned and redeveloped XBLGamerhub.com is now LIVE and online. The site - a community for Xbox 360 gamers is one of the largest out there. Since it was launched in 2009, it's grown to include over 16,000 community members, 7000 Twitter followers and 5000 Facebook likes. The site was created by …
A new year, a new record for Minecraft. Gamesindustry reports that the brand new PlayStation 3 version of the game, released just before Christmas 2013 (December 17th to be precise), has already sold over 1 million copies - in about six weeks. Even Mojang themselves seem startled by the game's huge impact, with the company's …
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"Blue Hotel," sang honey-voiced American crooner and presumed Black Lodge prisoner, Chris Isaak, "on a lonely highway" [Chris Isaak: Blue Hotel, from the album Chris Isaak, 1986, Warner Bros, Erik Jacobsen]. The man clearly knew his potatoes, though perhaps not the intricacies of the hospitiality industry, as a blue hotel - a hotel which was …
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